[R] simultaneous equation estimation?

[Ben Bolker]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, John Fox wrote:

> A more general question that is implicit in many postings to the list is
> how to find functions in contributed packages on CRAN. One can use the
> help.search function for this purpose to search installed packages, but I'm
> unaware of a means for searching the contents of *all* packages. It would
> be nice to be able to do so.
>

  Somewhere within my "bbmisc" package bundle (available from
http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/R/linux or .../R/windows) is a package
"CRANsearch".  The function CRAN.create.index() downloads all of the
current package descriptions from
CRAN, processes them slightly, and stores a local copy.  One can then use
a function "help.search.CRAN" to do the equivalent of "help.search" over
all of those packages ...

  e.g.

cind <- create.CRAN.index()
help.search.CRAN("structur",cind)
help.search.CRAN("structur",cind,packages.only=TRUE)
help.search.CRAN("2SLS",cind) ## still doesn't work -- experts are better...

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